Today I found three small budding cacti in a flower pot, so I decided to write about the cactus today.
These three little cacti are seeds that they inadvertently left in a pot when they ate cactus fruit the previous year.
At that time, it did not germinate, and then gradually forgot about it, and as a result, after more than a year, it actually sprouted.
After the seeds of the cactus germinate, like other seeds, they begin with two small fleshy leaves, which are like two small palms. A small bud in the palm of the hand is the shape of the future cactus.
When the small buds grow taller and taller, they will find that this small cactus has grown all over the body of thorns when it was small, and those small thorns are sharp and long. If you look closely, you will also see that under the small spikes, there are some things that resemble small blades.
The vitality of these seeds is really too tenacious, I don't know when these little cacti will be able to grow tall?
I remember when I was a child, there was a cactus that grew almost two meters tall in front of the alley of my aunt's house. Every year around the Spring Festival, you will see that it is full of red cactus fruits.
At that time, we didn't know that this was the fruit of the cactus, we just thought it was its flower, and at that time, we didn't know that the fruit of the cactus was edible.
Fresh cactus looks like a shrunken dragon fruit, removing the spikes and skin of the cactus fruit and eating the flesh inside.
However, this small-looking cactus fruit is really embarrassing under one bite.
Not only was the taste extremely sour, but the bright red juice would splash around, making it bright red all over the place, just like the scene of a bloody crime. It doesn't taste good either, it has a lot of cores, and the flesh is humbly surrounded by a large number of hard and small cores.
When you have vigorously found the little flesh in the pit of the fruit in your mouth, you have just sucked a little juice down and swallowed it, just want to savor it, and your mouth is already sour enough to make people surrender.
Later, I found that eating the fruit of cactus, if you want to taste good, you still have to pay attention to it.
The method is also simple, that is, directly remove the peel and thorns, take out the pulp of the cactus fruit, put it into the juicer to crush, filter it, add the appropriate amount of honey, and then add warm water to stir evenly.
Changed to use this method to eat cactus fruit, the juice is sweet and sour, and the taste is much better.
However, some friends told me that the cactus fruit I bought was not ripe enough, and he said that the ripe cactus fruit was extremely sweet. Still, the cactus fruit's belly-filled core alone had made me lose the desire to explore it again.
In fact, there is always a cactus in the house, and some people have grown taller, but they have never flowered or borne fruit.
This cactus was given to me when I was a great teacher when I was a student and when I graduated. At the time, it was just a cactus with no roots. The teacher didn't say anything special, it was just a small piece of the cactus in the corner of the campus.
In order to explore the teacher's intentions, I once went to the poem curiously to see if there was a verse about the cactus in the ancient poem, and finally found only a cactus poem written by Neruda.
"My cactus
You have a lot of thorns
You are gravel and dry wind
Brave enemy"
However, now I am only a promise in this earthly world, and the thorns in my body have long been smoothed out by time and society.